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Transform your thoughts, your life, and your actions to achieve greatness … one thought at a time. This powerful audio program featuring top motivational speakers and thought leaders will teach you steps to increase confidence and motivation to reach your goals. In Thinking Big, Les Brown will infuse you with inspiration and a sense of empowerment so you can choose your future.

Using the techniques in this program, you will be able to create boundaries around technology which will help clarify and simplify your life. Get unstuck and abandon your fears to set and achieve big goals!It doesn’t matter whether your goal is to become a millionaire—or a billionaire—or if you just want a bigger house, a nicer car, a better job, a healthier life, or a happier relationship. Discover the powerful tools you have been seeking to transform your life and your business.

Self-confident people exude passion and achieve extraordinary results. Join 10 experts in self-confidence as they share the systems for what the most successful people in the world enjoy - powerful self-confidence! Powerful Self-Confidence will teach you skills to increase your emotional capacity, build an unshakable belief in yourself, and experience increased performance through self-confidence. Implement the systems and tools offered in this program, and you will cultivate a healthy and confident state of mind to propel your life forward.

Even though public speaking is the most common of all fears, it doesn’t have to be a roadblock on the path to your success. Whether you’re speaking to five or five hundred, you can learn to do it with confidence and charisma. The best advice from some of the world’s most inspiring speakers is gathered right here. These powerful tips and techniques will help you develop winning material, mentally prepare for your presentation, and communicate a powerful message.

This is the poignant life-and-death story of Johnny Stack, whose young and vibrant life ended by suicide after his descent into addiction to high-potency marijuana and cannabis-induced psychosis. You’ll laugh and cry with his mother, Laura Stack, as she retells the story of Johnny’s joyful childhood and then takes you through the unthinkable tragedy of his loss. It’s every parent’s nightmare. But this book is much more than Johnny’s story.

There is one particular thing that works faster and more consistently than anything else to bring your mind and body into balance. This audio program from best-selling authors tells you what it is. Reducing the stress levels in your life will save you money, improve relationships, and get your life back into balance. This short audio program shows you how to do that, while you get more things done listening to this program during your commute.

LAURA STACK, MBA, CSP, is a personal productivity expert and the author of Leave the Office Earlier and Find More Time. As a professional speaker, she helps workers Leave the Office Earlier with Maximum Results in Minimum Time. Laura is the president of The Productivity Pro, Inc., an...

Don't Slow Down-Team Up! With countless emails, constant communication, cascading deadlines, and seemingly endless meetings, it's a wonder any of us gets anything done these days. You can try working harder or faster or smarter, but what really makes the difference is “teaming well.” A good team is the most powerful productivity machine in existence. Laura Stack's FAST model mobilizes teams to be the most effective they can be, while keeping each other's best interests at heart. Teams learn to work together Fairly, accept Accountability, apply Systems Thinking, and maximize available Technology. An interactive assessment helps you evaluate your team's current speed and rate of acceleration. Every team may have its stars, but they couldn't do their jobs without the rest of the team doing theirs. By the end of this audiobook, you'll truly understand the abilities of your team and how each member makes things go. So, rev your team's engines, and you'll soon be roaring down the track together!

Do you find yourself continually racing against time? Do you feel that you have so much to do that it’s difficult to get anything done? Managing time effectively is the key to managing your individual performance, but it’s much more complicated today than making a list and checking things off. This audio program will show you how to create a time management system that works for you.

Raising a motivated teenager doesn’t have to be a struggle! Empower yourself with the knowledge that will make your child-rearing years a success. Plenty of tools and methods exist that you can use today to make your child’s teen years happy and successful. These are pivotal years in the life of your child, and you can prepare your teenagers to be productive in school, happy in their relationships, and on their way to a bright future.

According to recent studies, your nonverbal signals communicate more powerfully than your words. What do your body language, clothing choice, and vocal intonation say about you? Knowing exactly what you want to communicate by your body language can be the difference between winning the sale, getting the job, or influencing groups of people to your point of view and not.

Do you have a story waiting to be told but know your writing skills need improvement? This expert resource will help you develop both your technical and creative writing skills. Best-selling authors reveal entertaining and informative methods to craft a story, organize complex thoughts, and write effectively to engage your readers.

In the daily whirl of work, family obligations, social interactions, and all the other activities that make up our busy lives, it’s easy to lose track of the basics, like household finances.In this presentation, Laura Stack, the Productivity Pro®, teaches you the fundamentals of staying on top of your home finances, from budgeting to insurance needs. With that foundation laid, you’ll be ready for Brian Tracy’s tips on how to set and achieve million-dollar goals.

Are you running toward your dream, or just making it through each day? Do you know your gifts and purpose? What’s holding you back? There are three steps you can take to move forward faster toward dreaming again, hurdling the barriers to your goals, and fulfilling what you are here to do! It takes vision, plans, and action.

Are you plagued with constantly running out of time? Would you like to squeeze more time out of every day? Not to worry - now you can tap these ingenious strategies to launch your productivity to new heights. By the time you've finished this program, you'll know just how to smash your deadlines and power through your most challenging tasks. This program teaches you the difference between settling for mediocre results and achieving resounding success by becoming the master of your time.

These days, everyone is busy. Advances in technology mean there is more information to sort through than ever. Work hours have increased, but to-do lists are endless - schedules get blown in the first five minutes of the day. You could spend more time “planning” and “prioritizing” your list than actually doing the work! At work and in life, we all just have too much to do! And when you have too much to do, it’s hard to feel productive. If you can’t do everything, you need to put your time and energy into what will yield the more important results.

Let these best-selling authors share their strategies for staying relevant in these times of information overload, with practical strategies on organization and easy to master dynamics of speed reading.

Is the burden of debt keeping you awake at night? Are you looking for debt relief, wondering if you need to get a second job just to tread water? Are you seeking the shortest path to financial freedom? Well, you're in luck. You're about to unlock the secrets to getting out of debt fast - and forever! The truth is that creditors don't want you to pay down your debt. They want to keep your debt principal high so they can collect the most amount of interest possible.

Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization - doing the right things. Efficiency is accomplishing them in the least amount of time, with the least effort and cost - doing things right. If you're not clear on both, you're wasting your time. As Drucker put it, "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Stack's 3T Leadership offers 12 practices that will enable executives to be effective and efficient, grouped into three areas where leaders spend their time.

An award-winning pioneer of the modern field of "change management", this consultant to companies as diverse as American Express, General Motors, and British Airways specializes in connecting psychology to people skills. Subjects include the phenomenon of leadership, what makes a leader "authentic", examining your motives, and top reasons why leaders fail.